"Kew mycologists Bryn Dentinger and Laura Martinez-Suz have discovered three species of mushrooms that are new to science in a commercial packet of dried Chinese porcini purchased from a shop in London."

"For each geographical entity we represented major urban areas by oat flakes and inoculated the slime mould in a capital. [We] found that the slime mould approximates best of all the motorway graphs of Belgium, Canada and China."

"After the husks are cooked, sprayed with water and myco-vitamins and seeded with mushroom spores, the mixture is poured into a mold of the desired shape and left to grow in a dark warehouse. A week or two later, the finished product is popped out and the material rendered biologically inert."